The next page of my photo album has head shots of a woman and a man. There is a similarity in style that might lead one to believe these are companion photographs of a husband and wife. As we will see in a moment, they likely are not as they were not taken in the same city.
So, let’s check the lady out…
1880’s hair and possibly 90’s sleeves. 
I was not successful locating any information on the Farmer Bros. other than a few examples of their work. James F Barke was a photographer in the 1880’s and 90’s. I was unable to find any information about 294 Queen Street other than it had various business’ (some of them photography studios) but no firm dates.
Now for the gentleman…
His latest fellow had his photograph taken in Sault St. Marie Michigan.
Okay, lets look at the patterns.
General looks of the subjects….The gentleman above has the same mustache, hair color, eye brows and nose as the fellow from an earlier post on this album.
And the same nose as this fellow from the last post.
Perhaps these are brothers.
Locations
Winnipeg – album was bought in Winnipeg.
Photographs taken in Winnipeg.
(These two ladies are not the same lady and they do not look enough alike to make me think that they are sisters.)
Photos taken in Toronto…
Photos taken in Sault St. Marie Michigan.
Does location imply family groups? If the man, woman and children from Toronto, are a nuclear family why are they grouped in the book so randomly. Were they put in by the original owner randomly? In order of receiving them? Are they even in the original place the first owner of the book put them in? Have random family members and collectors pulled them out and rearranged them? Are they even related to each other or known to each other as friends?
There are patterns but there are more questions than answers.
There’s also the possibility of a seller filing the pages with random cards to sell an album at a higher price. I’m not saying this is the case! But it’s a practice unfortunately. I love the design on your album pages, so lovely.
I have also considered that. I trust my seller but I don’t know where he got it from so who can say that he wasn’t taken. The price was 1/4 what I’ve seen on sites like Ebay so even if turns out to be a “stacked” album, I think I did really well!
That’s great! I’ve been wanting to have an album just to store my cards. I wish someone made new ones with the Victorian look. Wouldn’t that be neat?
That would be neat. I keep my eyes open for those as well. Right now they are either framed and hanging in my sewing room or they are in a box in my dresser. The box system is not ideal.
It isn’t, thankfully I have enough sleeves from sellers to keep them protected so they don’t rub together at least.
I do that as well. Mostly ziploc bags though. I don’t close the bag though for fear that there is a dampness that will begin to mold. I should get some sheets of acid free paper!
These are great and affordable: http://the2buds.com/mylar-cabinet-card-sleeves.html
cool. They are out of stock now but I will keep it in mind!
I still haven’t found the perfect way to store my cabinet cards. I stack them on the edges in a small bin but it would be neat to have an album. How do you keep yours?
Most are in a box, laying flat and stacked one on top of the other. Not ideal.
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